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That's the thing. The Dodgers and Giants have this little rivalry that goes a long way back to brushbacks, spikes up slides and bat attacks. Not sure how Gibby and his boys are going to usurp that fire...

It's certainly not on par with the rivalry with the Giants, and it never will be. But in short windows there can be extremely intense rivalries between two groups of players and organizations that just don't like each other. Obviously the best rivalries are born out of two teams that are good at the same time for an extended period of time. Those can be fun.

THIS particular situation is just petty and stupid, built around animosities over bean balls and pissing in the pool. Bottom line is the Dodgers are better than the D Backs, and likely to be so in 4 out of the next 5 years. So the D Backs have to flail at something.

Arguing which is the better organization, or more civic minded over who made a trip to Sydney ? That's just dumb. If the D Backs season had lasted an extra couple of weeks would they have still made that trip ?

"All I know about the other team," Gibson continued, "is that sometimes they force a guy who can barely walk to pinch hit in the bottom of the ninth of a World Series game. What kind of inhuman monster does that?"

"All I know about the other team," Gibson continued, "is that sometimes they force a guy who can barely walk to pinch hit in the bottom of the ninth of a World Series game. What kind of inhuman monster does that?"

Especially after half their genius fans left because they knew it was only a 3% chance of winning the exhibition game anyways. I mean come on!